1,206-CITY ATLASSOURCE-BACKED CITY REFERENCE
Kazakhstan
Compare this sourced profile of Shymkent, Kazakhstan before planning. Stable fields identify the place; confirm current transport, access and opening details with official sources.
01What the data says — and does not say
This page separates the checked GeoNames row for Shymkent—1,200,000, Asia/Almaty, and source coordinates—from live travel claims. Those fields identify and compare the record; they do not prove current transport, accessibility, census totals, or a City Atlas Club visit.
Wikidata's localized description: city in Kazakhstan.
02This city's dataset fingerprint
The source row behind Shymkent is GeoNames ID 1518980. Its recorded administrative path is Shymkent → Kazakhstan, and GeoNames classifies the place as a first-order administrative seat. Shymkent occurs once as a primary city label in this atlas sample; the numeric ID remains the durable source key if names change. The city row itself was updated 2026-04-14; that date belongs to the source record, not to every transport or visitor detail in the real destination.
Within the fixed 1,206-record atlas, Shymkent ranks 443 by recorded population. Inside the 5 selected Kazakhstan entries it ranks 3; inside the 632 entries in its broad region it ranks 261. Its 1,200,000 population value is 1.00 times the 1,200,000 median for the country cohort and 1.19 times the 1,008,426 regional median. Shymkent is rank 3 among the 5 selected Kazakhstan entries, so a percentage band would overstate this small cohort. Shymkent's recorded value stays within one quarter of the country-cohort median used here. These comparisons describe this selected dataset only; they are not current census rankings or official urban-area boundaries.
Shymkent's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Tashkent at 120.509 km with 1,978,028 recorded people; Namangan at 225.615 km with 713,220 recorded people; Andijan at 284.922 km with 747,800 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 164.413 km. Compared with Tashkent, Shymkent's recorded population is 0.61 times as large. Against Shymkent, Tashkent follows Tashkent → Uzbekistan in the source. Its point has lower latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the selected Uzbekistan cohort rather than Kazakhstan, uses Asia/Tashkent instead of Asia/Almaty, and carries capital of a political entity rather than first-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is above Shymkent's. Against Shymkent, Namangan follows Namangan → Uzbekistan in the source. Its point has lower latitude and higher longitude; it belongs to the selected Uzbekistan cohort rather than Kazakhstan, uses Asia/Tashkent instead of Asia/Almaty, and carries the same first-order administrative seat class. Its recorded population is below Shymkent's. Against Shymkent, Andijan follows Andijan Region → Uzbekistan in the source. Its point has lower latitude and higher longitude; it belongs to the selected Uzbekistan cohort rather than Kazakhstan, uses Asia/Tashkent instead of Asia/Almaty, and carries the same first-order administrative seat class. Its recorded population is below Shymkent's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 775 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Shymkent's nearest-coordinate gap belongs to the wider half of atlas distances. This pattern can reveal whether other catalog references are geographically close, but it cannot establish whether a border crossing is possible or practical, or whether rail, road, fare, or journey-time connections exist. Read as one record signature, GeoNames 1518980, the coordinate pair 42.3099 / 69.6004, country rank 3 of 5, and neighbor GeoNames 1512569 at 120.509 km bind Shymkent to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Shymkent's reference point is 42.3099° north and 69.6004° east. The IANA identifier Asia/Almaty is shared by 4 city rows in this catalog, while the GeoNames class PPLA is shared by 429 rows. Shymkent's row carries a first-order administrative label but no second-order label. Shymkent's point falls in the middle-latitude coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Shymkent's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Shymkent, so the profile preserves that missing value instead of guessing terrain. Together these fields form a reproducible identity check for this page, not a claim about walkability, climate or accessibility.
03Nearby atlas references
Shymkent's closest other entries in this atlas are Tashkent (120.509 km), Namangan (225.615 km), Andijan (284.922 km).
04Verify before you book
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GeoNames updated the row 2026-04-14; the atlas checked the dataset 2026-08-04. Available Wikidata fields were verified in the same run.
GeoNames data: CC BY 4.0. Wikidata labels and descriptions: CC0 1.0.